Seren
Mom stared at the frozen wreckage for a long moment before she exhaled—slow, steady, and almost reverent. “Well,” she said quietly, “that answers that.”
Gideon blinked. “Answers what, exactly?”
She turned to us, her expression no longer alarmed, but…awed. “You didn’t destabilize the elements. You amplified them. And you didn’t do it because something went wrong.”
My pulse thundered in my ears. “Then why did it happen?”
“Because you’re twins,” she said simply. “And because the Goddess blessed that bond.”
The words settled over me like a physical weight. Power coiled uncomfortably in my gut—not exhilarating, not yet—just heavy with possibility and consequence.
“Twin bonds already carry shared intuition, heightened resonance,” Mom continued. “But what the two of you have… this is
